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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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1. Explicitly teaches strategies and techniques for studying texts and acquiring meaning






2. r-controlled syllable






3. Gray Oral Reading Test-Fourth Edition Screening test. Provides an efficient and objective measure of growth in oral reading and an aid in the diagnosis of oral reading difficulties Standard Scores - Percentile Ranks - Grade Equivalents - Age Equivale






4. Present the parts of the language and then teaches how the parts work together to make a whole. Part of a MSLE Program






5. A class of open speech sounds produced by the easy passage of air through a relatively open vocal tract. A - E - I - O - U






6. Whole language. Founder of Whole language concept






7. Given normal hearing - the ability to understand spoken language in a meaningful way.






8. Multisensory Structured Language






9. Whole language - Drop Everythng and read - evaluation through miscues - founds of whole language






10. Present the whole and teaches how this can be broken down into component parts.






11. Supported only by "qualitative research" instead of quantitative research - Teaches "whole words" in word families - Students are not explicitly taught that there is a relationship between letters and sounds for most sounds






12. Provide different ways for kids to take in information or communicate their knowledge back to you. The changes do not alter or lower the standards or expectations of a subject or a test.






13. Closed syllable - open syllable - vowel- consonant-e - r controlled syllable - vowel team - final stable syllable






14. Normalized standard scores with a range of 1 to 9. They are status score within a particulur norm group.






15. The flat diacritical mark above a vowel in a send picture or phonic/dictionary notation that indicates a long sound.






16. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children






17. Behaving without thinking about possible consequences. May act or speak without first thinking about how their behavior might make other people react of feel






18. 1904 - reported 2 cases of "congenital word blindness" - called for schools to establish procedures for screening as well as appropriate teaching of those that were identified with congenital word-blindness






19. Ability to understand and express spoken language






20. Wide Range Achievement Test






21. Reading for Learning "the New" - Expand vocabularies - build background and world knowledge - develop strategic habits

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22. Is one that provides for translating test scores into a statement about the behavior to be expected of a person with that score or their relationship to a specified subject matter. Most tests and quizzes written by school teachers are criterion-refer






23. Is a specific learning disability that is neurological in origin. It is characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding abilities. These difficulties typically result from a deficit in the






24. His research in the field of reading was fundamental to the emergence of today's scientific consensus about what reading is - how it works and what it does for the mind.






25. Stress or emphasis on one syllable in a word or on one or more words in a phrase or sentence. The accented part is spoken louder - longer - and/or in a higher tone. The speaker's mouth opens wider while saying an accented syllable.






26. Shakespeare - Samuel Johnson - first comprehensive dictionary of English - Noah Webster - first dictionary of American English - Oxford Dictionary published in full 1928






27. A diacritical marking. A wavy line placed over any vowel before r in a combination to indicate the unaccented pronunciation eg letter. The tildes used both in coding words and in a sound picture. When the pronunciation of any unaccented vowel-r combi






28. A quick probe that is done frequently in order to make instructional changes in a timely fashion.






29. A word to which affixes are added. A base word can stand alone.






30. The curved line placed beneath c to indicate its "soft" or (s) pronunciation - as opposed to its hard or (k) pronunciation. Students use the coding on c before the letters e - i - or y (the softeners) - to remind themselves to pronounced the (s) soun






31. Take frequent study breaks - move around to learn new things - work at a standing position - chew gum while standing - listen to music while studying - skim material first then read in detail






32. Inferential learning of a concept cannot be take for granted! Never assume!






33. Construction and Reconstruction - Construct understanding based on analysis and synthesis.

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34. The term is also used for the language now called Old English - spoken and written by the ________ and their descendants in much of what is now England and some of southeastern Scotland between at least the mid-5th century and the mid-12th century.






35. Attempt - Failure - Frustration - Avoidance - Lack of Practice - No improvement - Loss of esteem - loss of motivation = THIS






36. 1925 - Coined the term "strephosymbolia" which means twisted symbols; Pathologist - neurologist and psychitrist in the US - studied with Dr. Alzheimer in Germany - work influenced by James Hinshelwood






37. A spoken or written unit that must have a vowel sound and that may include consonants that precede or follow that vowel. Syllables are units of sound made by one impulse of voice.






38. A test in which the results can be used to determine a student's progress toward mastery of a content area. performance is compared to an expected level of mastery in a content area rather that to other student's scores. Such tests usually include qu






39. Academic Language Therapy Association






40. Refers tot he measurement consistency of a test






41. A base word or meaningful unit in there terminology of structural linguistics.






42. The process of systematically gathering test scores and related data in order to make judgement about an individuals ability to perform various mental activities involved in the processing - acquisition - retention - conceptualization - and organizat






43. 1877 - first to use the term "word-blindness"






44. A significant unit of visual shape. We use the visual shape as to cover not only writing - but also any other shape perceived by the eye which is a visible representation of a unit of speech. A single graphic letter or letter cluster which represents






45. Use - pictures - charts - maps - graphs - etc...clear view of teacher - color to highlight important text - ask teacher to provide handouts - illustrate ideas as pictures before writing them down - use multi media






46. Screening test. Elementary age only. Asks test taker to name the letters of the alphabet






47. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






48. A syllable ending with one or more consonants. The vowel is usually short.






49. A group of several test standardized on the same sample population so that results on the several tests are comparable. Example : School achievement tests






50. A word that is immediately recognized as a whole and does not require decoding to identify. A sight word may or may not be phonetically regular.